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title: Tipping the head back is wrong, because blood runs down the throat a… — Nosebleeds and bumps on the head · tree and pragmatics
description: Tipping the head back is wrong, because blood runs down the throat and can make you sick. Who acts: Tipping, blood. A sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nosebleeds and bumps on the head, sentence 6

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Tipping the head back is wrong, because blood runs down the throat and can make you sick.

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**Who acts:** Tipping, blood · **What happens:** tip, be, run down, make · **To what, where:** head back, throat, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tipping, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:005-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head.lesson:6
# text = Tipping the head back is wrong, because blood runs down the throat and can make you sick.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 005-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tipping	tip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tip** | gerund |  | the head back |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Tipping |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run down** | present | blood | the throat |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location throat=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | can | blood *not said here* | you |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:005-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head.lesson:6`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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